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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-10-26

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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-10-26

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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-10-26
NApoLEor's MANIFESTO.

PARIS, oct. 25 Prince Victor Ma
poieon issued manifesto in reply TO
he manifesto issued by the Count of
Paris some time ago. He demands al
appeal to the people and asserts that
Napoleon alone can give France a
strong democratic government.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-10-26
FOREIGN AFFAIRS

ANOTHER ALLIANCE.

PARIS, oct. 25.-- The Figaro .ates
thet the car visited Copenhagen
with a view OF taking deci.lyc action
IN regard to Bulgarian affairs aud
that lie has formed All anti German
alliance between Russia, Belgium, II oil
land, sweden and Denmark. Other
powers are expected to join the a.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-10-26

The people of Waco and vicinity
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the opening OF the New Drug o'oio'
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-10-26
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Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
HER MEMORY STILL GONE,
No One Claims the Pretty Crazy Girl
 at Bellevue. S&T g.

Tho well-dresscd girl who wandered into the Home for Women in Sec ,nd avenue. N. Y., and wEo said she was Nellie Marina, and again that she was Nellie Brown, is still in Bellevue Hospital. The doctors are not certain that she Is insane. She says continually that men are going to kill her, and that she would kill herself if she only knew the name of the poi son she wants to take. She has luced inter- vals, when she talks sensib,y enough about what is going on ar und her, but she appears to remember nothing of the past. Dr. Brais- ted, the physician at the insane pavil on, takes no stock in the theory that the girl is suffer- ing from the effec's of drugs His opinion is that she is suffering from hystericsl mania, but he is not certain that she is not romancing. He admits that her case is a puzzle that will take several days to solve.
 The girl IS probably Cuban, and, as far as can be inferred from what she said on Satur- day, it is believed that she lived in New Or leans.
 "Where are your relations ?" she was asked.
 ssThey are dead" she answered, sadly. events of the day before, and said that she had never been at the Home in Second avenue or at the Police Court. Then her eyes sparkled and she said appealingly to the reporter: II want to leave this place; will you take me P
 Where do you want to go?"
 :'Nowhere," she said mournfully.
 AS the nurse took her back to her apart ment the girl said: ''I never saw such a lot of crazy men as there are around this place."
 'lhey are not c 'azy men," said the nurse; 'sthey are reporters"
 They must be crazy to question me-" she answered.
 There's not a mark of any kind on the girls clothing. Her shoes are high topped with French heels-wood covered with leather. They are of American make and are 21s in size. She has probably been travelling very lately. for she often speaks about her trunks She ia unable to fell where they are but says she has plenty of nice clothing in them
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
A TEXAS CYCLONE.
Wrecks by Wind and Rain in
 Brownsville and Matamoras.

A cyclone visited Brownsville and Meta- moras Tex, carrying destruction in it's ath. The rain deluged the country for miles, and immense damage was done.
 The damage in the country outside of the two cities is incalculable. Countless head of cattle and sheep have been lost, and the crops of cotton, corn and sugar cane are completely prostrated and destroyed. One rancher on 8 small place calculates his loss in cotton alone at S20, 900. and many others are equally heavy losers. The total of the losses will be far be- yond $1, ,OOO, 900.
 At Brownsville the chief sufferers were among the poor. Between sixty and eighty jacals, the cheaper class of dwellings, have been blown down, and fully three hundred have been partially unroofed and rendered unin- habitable. MT. Scanlan's warehouse, contain three hundred cases of coal oil, was blown down, Mr. Chenowith's two-story frame house was destroyed, two houses on MT. Fields place were prostrnted, and one belonging to John Clark, near Leon, was blown down: MT: Raphaels magnificent residence and elegant furniture were badly damaged, and many others suffered similarly. Large numbers of fences were blown down, and almost every fence was more or less damaged. Magnificent shade trees were scattered into fragments or overturned. A large tree st John McGovern's corner was uprooted and the house injured. A barge and steam launch at the ferry. landing were sunk The boats of the ferry company were saved with great difficulty.
 In MatamOrQS the narrow streets QurlnB the storm were seas of water, from ankle to noar- ly hip deep. Even in the more central parts of the town the streets are all encountered with debris. In the city about dozen houses of the better classs and fully 150 or 200 jacals were prostrated, while from 400 to 800 were unroofed or shattered. Col. Yanez's new house, which was in cour.e of construction on Seventh street. was prostrated. Aframe house which stood on the lower part of Sixth street now lies mass of debris on the street. The brick house which stood at the southeast cor ner of the Main plaza, opposite the Custom House, is mass of ruins in the plaza. The De Arrieros House is down. In Sixth street there is tin roof nicely rolled up lying in the street, and in several other parts of the town are vestiges of these uncerain roof coverings. The public buildings and stores, and the bet ter class of dwellings leaked like sieves, and are all afioat. Fences, trees, etc., suffered in all parts of the city. The unfortunate lagoon district south of the Plaza del Capilla is again inundated. Many houses have fallen. The water was from knee to waist deer.
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
SEEN ON A DRY DOCK.
An Experts Opinion of the Thistle's
 Formation.

The keel is of the trough or gutter kind ,now in vogue among the modern type of boat, and is about three feet across the top, or what would be called the top were she wooden boat. The forefoot is very much cut away, in direct violation of the old theory that boat could not go to windward without good hold forward. The sternpost has a rake not far from 45 degrees, and in this way the centre of lateral resistance is kept well under control. It is said that all the ballast is run into the keel, and therefore the centre of gravity is lowered as much possible. Above the keel are three in and out strakes, above which the plating is all flush. The workmanship of this plating is the best yet seen in this country, and in this particular the Volunteer shows to very poor advantage. The water line is slightly hollow, perhaps an inch, the area heing re- tained as much possible, without looking full. Aft the line is quite bold. In every way the fullness extends fore and aft so that a very long floor is the result, and the overhang is carried out straight as possible, and there is no break ill what designers call the quarter diagonal, which is particularly fine. Forward and above water the same scheme of line is carried out; in fact, as the hull came in view the beauty of the water lines fore and aft was marked. and the subject of favorable com- ment from many experts on the dock, none of whom could suggest change. As far as could be seen there is very little rake to the midship section, and, contrary to all cutters seen here before, the beam is greatest at the deck. In this way the undesirable wall side of other cutters Is avoided and renders the Thistle 8 very fair and slightly boat, aud Mir. Watson certainly deserves credit for bringing such a fine specimen to these waters.
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
FOR AND AGAINGST ANAR-
 CHESTS.
Two-thirds of the Central Union
 Delegates Quit the Hall.

The Chicago Anarchists caused split in the Central Labor Union on Sunday. All of the unions whose representatives are prominently identified with the Union Labor party with drew, and then those that were left got the Central Labor Union to request the holding of meetings by workmen in behalf of the Anar- chists all over the country. This is what Sam Gompero, President of the American Feder- ation of Labor, suggested when news of the affirmation of the sentence was received in this city. The delegates who kicked over the traces and went away were not really averse to the discussion of the Anarchist question, but just now the United Labor is not anxious to be allied with the Anarchists, as such an alliance means loss of great many votes. George is not outspoken in condemning the Chicago Anarchists, but it is well lsnown that he is against them, and really believes that they ought to be hanged. On the other hand, the Progressive Labor party is mov ng heaven and earth to help the Anarchists. George sur misses, and 80 does others of the leaders, that this will cost the Progressives votes of every conservative workingman in the State. Geo. G. Block shouts God bless the man who threw the bomb;" James Crotty says ssHang them" An exceedingly lively meeting took place.
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
Instinct Guides Their Steps.

"One of the strangest phenomena to me-" remarked physician last evening, ''is the manner in which some intoxi- cated men find their homes. For in- stance, I had very wealthy patient send for me the other morning. He wanted me to dress wound on the back of his h ad. He was utterly un- able to tell how he had received it. It was a severe cut, and must have been very painful. Inquiry developed that the gentleman had attended ban quet the night before, which was very lively affair. In the early morning he departed for home. He remembered in a rather muddled way every incident that happened to him up to the time of reaching the street. After that all is a blank, and he can recall nothing until he awoke in bed that morning with a lacerated and painful head. How, when or where he received his wound he cannot tell Yet he was able to find his home, open the door and get into bed feel inclined to accept Falstaff' s reasoning and say that such people reach their destination by instinct. "--
 Philadelphia Call.
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
EIGHT STAB WOUNDS.
Alex. Sormanie Says He Was Cut in
 the House of His Friends.

Alexander Sormanie, an Italian laborer B years old. went to Italian boarding house in West Third street, New York City, to visit friends. At 7.20 p. m. Sormanie staggered through Third street, and at the corner of Woostec street was met by Arthur Cairns. colored youth. Sormanies face and shirt were streakcd with blood, and, after telling the boy that he had been stabbed asked him to assist him to the station house, where Ser geant Chapman found that Sormanie had eight stab wounds in his right side besides the wound ill his scalp. Hc was very weak from loss of blood and at first refused to an- swer the Sergeant's questions. Then he said:
 I called on my friends at AS West Third street. After some hours they tried to put me out of the house, and when resisted they stabbed me-"
 Louis Rifle. macllinist who lives in the boarding house where the stabbing occurred, Sormanie says. one of the men who stabbed him, and he said he did not know the names of his other assailants. Detectives Sullivan and Reynolds of the Mercer street station ar rested Rifle. who told them Sormanie was dis orderly in the house and fought with severel of the boartlers who tried to expel him. He denied that any weapons were used on Sor- manic while he was present. He was locked up.
 Sormanie's wounds which are painful but not dangerous, were dressed by Ambulance Surgeon Reilly.
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
A Romantic Life.

Martin RyeTson{ the millionnre Chi cago lumbernlan, ,S who has just died in Boston, had strange and romantic ca reer. His father was milkman in the sarburhs of Paterson, N. J. Martin did not like the drudgery of carrying milk, so he ran awny from home to seek his fortune. His sister, it is said, help ed his midnight escap,. The boy worked his woy to Buffalo on a canal boat, and grad }ually made h.s way to the lumber regioAs of the northwest. There he fell in with the Indians and for years lived with them and adopted their ways. He was n great favorite with the chief of the tribe and married his daughter. When he rose to afiuence he sent for father and poor relatives and got them positions in the West. Some time ago he had an obelisk erected in Q Chicago cemetery and a massive sarcoph. agas placed on it. In this his body will be placed. This was his way of provid- ing for burial by the Indian method, or as close to it as the requirements of civil ization would permit.
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
A BURGLAR HURT.
Dr. Hornblower was all Ready for Q
 Midnight Marauder.

Dr. Theodore Hornblowcr lives with his wife and family in Q handsome villa residence on Jersey City Heights. Between 3 and o'clock in the morning his wife, who sleeps in an apartment separate from the Doctors, was aroused by strange noises in the house. She crept quietly to the Doctors room and reused him from slumber. The Doctor seized his re- yolver from beneath, tiss pillow and sprang from his couch
 His feet had scarcely tooched the floor before the door of his room, was pushed opon gently and burglar stepped iIe The Doctor is powerfully built fellow, and he sprang at the midnight visitor and grappled with him. He had scarcely got his hand npon the thief when Doctor in the neck and for moment, stag gered him. The house breaker took Advan- tage of the situation and turned to flee toward the door, The Doctor fired and the thief. turned with an oath and returned the shot. The thiefs second shot went wide of the mark and the Doctor sent another ball after him as he fled into the hall.
 Meanwhile Mrs. Hornblower had run to the window in the room to raise an alarm. As she looked out she saw three men pass out of the building and retreat rapidtys down the street. One of the men. lirnped as though he had been badly hurt in the lower part of the body. aa
 singularly enough, though Lettis'S saloon across the street was still open at fhe time or the afray, no one inside there heaTh the shots or knew of the shooting. till next morning. A minister living just below the dostor's house says that he was looking out of his window and saw two men leading wounded man be- l tween them. ''If had him now" the wound. ed man was heard to exc.aim, 'sTd kill him. |" The police were not notified of the affair till two or thrse hours after the. shooting. Drops of blood on the sidewalk showed that the wounded burglar had gone down Central and Palisade avenues to Hancock street. There all | trace of him was lost. e- The ball first fired by the burglar entered l the doctors neck few inches to the left of the throat, and then passed under the skin to | a point near tho back of his neck, where It left his body. The wound of itself is not a dangerous one, but the doctor is suffering se- | verely from shock. The burglars secured nothing as the result or their visit The sup
 position is that the man who want into the
 doctors room was seeking the keNof the doc,
 tors safe. It was very dark in fine doctors
 room at tho time of the encounter, and he
 says ho will bo unable to identify his assail- | ant
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
A FATAL FIRE.
One Person Killed and Several Miss
 ing-Two Persons Injured.

Fire was discovered Wednesday night in the four-story brick dwelling on Lafayette and Lewis avenues, Brooklyn, N. Y. The first floor is occupied by Peter Hansen as grocery, and the other floors are flats, and each flat was occupied. About 101l o'clock Mir. Nolan sme.t smoke in the house. He found immediately that the lower part of the house was on fire, and at once sent out an alarm. Engine Com pany 17, whose house is about half 2 mile dis tant, reached the scene within five minutes.
 The fire, which broke out in the cellar or hallway, had mean hile mads such rapid prog was cut of, and the f1remen found that almost all the occupants of the house were hemmel in by the flames and in imminent peril of their lives. The flames had driven the occupants of the second floor to the floor above, and the members of both families appeared at the front windows with terror pictured on their faces. The firemen planted ladders and res cued the women and children, exposing their own lives in the work During the excitement MT. Gisswell, who had been assisting the wo- men and children, fell back from window and was not seen again alive: When the fire was e1tinguished his dead body was found near the window. He had died of suffoca- tion. .
 Frederick Siegel aged twenty, who had been visiting Mr. disswell, was severely burned on the head and arms, and it is thought he cam not recover.
 MT. Nolan, his wife, and three children had a very narrow escape from the fourth floor. The firemen were unable to reaoh them on the lad der and Mr. Nolan dropped his wife and chil- dren, one by one into the arms of the fire men, who were clinging to the top of the ladder, which reached only to the third story lsadsr sa ,shs ssssste I fer His heroic work M Mr. Nolan fell back exhausted, but was subse- quently Nscs6d and restored to consciousness
 All in the Horton apartments escaped injury but Ehms Drury, aged 12years, who was visit- the head and body and cannot recover.
 Sc far as the police can learn at midnight there were no further casnalties, but there was rumor that two or three persons were miss ing ,-} FNs
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Neither wine, ale porter or brandy has ever been manufactured in Japan.
 Missionaries have, in the past eight years, formed and reduced to writing over forty languages.
 The manufacture cfrubies has reached such perfection that the artificial pro- duct is often as valu ,ble as the natural stone.
 The most remarkable echo known is that on the>north side of church of shipley, Sosscx Englard. It repeats twenty one syllablcs
 The firsk regular census under the Constitution>Qf >Qf the United States was taken in 179G91, and it credited the Union with a Population of a>e21, a2s persons. N
 An ordinary elephant produces 12o pounds ivory, <Aworth e6o. England consumes $50 tons> (of which Sheffield onethirI flor whichs-it is necessary to kill 12, 900 elephants yearly.
 During the barbarism of the middle ages plain and coarse food was the order of the day in Europe, and when costly 1ainties began to be in vogue they ap- peared first in the monasteries. The expression we hear so often, "boxing the compass" means simply to read the letters on the points of the compass, and to repeat them in order, as north; north by east; north north east north cast by north-and so. The points number sixty four.
 It is said that there is no doubt tha, the water from the Daniel Spring, Ga., is natural, hair dye. Mrs. Sheats ol Oconec county had hair that was cn. tirely gray until she paid ss7visit te Daniel Spring, where she daily bathed her head. Her hair at once began to change color, andis now almost black
 The story, says the Pioche (Cal.) Rec ord, of cucumbers being on exhibition at the different fairs which measure two  feet in length and weigh five pounds, i nothing. We have cucumbers in Pioch. that will measure three feet in lengtl and will weigh ten pounds. We hav' never thought the subject worthy O mention before.
 The duel between Alexander Hamil ton and Aaron Burr, in which the forme was killed, was fought in 1894. It wa uot until three years later QSOD tha Burr was tried for treason, in attemptin. the Mississippi Valley. He was arrested at Natchez, and tried at Richmond. Hi acquittal was on the ground that he hat not borne arms against the United States
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
THE CONDEMNED ANARCHISTS.
 -, A New Petition in Their Behalf Labor Unions in Sympathy.

CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-The committee having in charge the circulation of petition begging mercy for tho condemned Anarchists will cir culate this:
 To Ills Ercellency Richard J. Oglesby, Gor-
 e,nor oJ Illinois:
 The undersigned having watcf ed with great interest the progress of events in connection with and since the trial in Chicago of the so- called Anarchists = August Spies, Michael Schwab, Oscar Neebe, Albert R. Parsons, Samuel Felden, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, and George Engel-and believing that the sentence against them is unwarranted by the evidence, extreme in it's severity, and induced by view of the law never hitherto sanctioned by any well-considered precedent, and that the accused were not shown to have been guilty of throwing or causing to be thrown the bomb at the so-called Haymarket meeting; and being advised in effect by the statement of the prosecution in said cause that these men were selected and proceeded against sim ply because of their position as leaders in the general labor agitation, which seems to us as unwarranted as it is injud:cinus, and calculated to embitter the wage workers still further against the present social order; and believing that in a case of this kind humanity and the State are better served by mercy than by 8 rigorous execution of judgment the justice of which is questioned by very many of our people, respectfully protest against the e1ecu- ton thereof, and bespeak, in the name of jus tice, mercy, and humanity, the exercise by your Excellency of the executive clemency in the cases of these men.
Connecticut western news., 1887-09-28
A Strong Man.

For one of his sedentary habits, the late Chas. Sumner had extraordinary strength, and yet he was not an athlete. While in Washington his only exercise was walking, and as he believed 1t was the pace rather than the distance that tells, when opportunity offered he would go at rate that amazed beholders Some persons attempting to join and keep up with him only succeeded by taking an occasional hop, skip, and jump, such as children practice when walking with their parents. Up to the time of his injuries he walked much in Washington, for, as he said, he could outwalk omnibuses, and give them long odds. N
 He was hardly aware of his enormous strength, it was so seldom called into exercise. His books were packed in large boxes at the end of each session and sent from his rooms to the Capitol, only to be returned at the beginning of the next session. These boxes weighed nearly five hundred pounds each, and were difficult to handle in passages and stairways, anI so were accompanied by four men. Once when he was living at tue Rev.aDr. Sampson's, one of these heavy boYfs got stuck in the stairway. It could H extricated without damage to the swaas only.hy lifting it over the banister. The four men failed to apply their strength tothe most advantage, for they got in each others way, and thus failed to move the box. The Senator, halted and gloved, ready to go out, came down the stairs.
 "Why don't you lift it over the rail?' said he.
 "How can we?" answered one. "You have no idea of its weight
 .Let mo try" said the Senator, and, leaning over the rail, he seized the rope becket at the end of the box and lifted the latter clear of it's entanglements by one sure pull, splitting his glove, how ever, across the back. The men were amazed; and he, little embarrassed, said, ''I didn't mean to lift it, only to try it's weight;' and then went back for fresh gloves.